Comment by railka
20 hours ago
Yes, AI have changed the game, and now you can build and maintain two separate projects in Swift & Kotlin instead of one on React
20 hours ago
Yes, AI have changed the game, and now you can build and maintain two separate projects in Swift & Kotlin instead of one on React
If AI can make any language do anything, why move away from React Native ?
What you could do with Kotlin/Swift you can do with React Native as well.
This just feels like internal factions wanting their own teams, and owning their respective politics, than a discussion on Merit.
Native is fast , no extra layer , the problem is maintaining on every native platform your app available. And AI tooling can handle that efficiently today , not way back then.
The problem with xplat is they add extra layer on top of platform native.
- React native and similar, add extra js runtime engine.
- Flutter and Kotlin MP add extra skia graphics engine.
- Skiptools add extra swift runtime
- Cordova adn similar add extra browser engine
- Etc
> What you could do with Kotlin/Swift you can do with React Native as well.
In theory yes, in practice no. I mean, in theory you can do it in mips ASM and ship QEMU along with the app, in practice it makes no sense.
Others mention quicker startup of the app, more native-look, less head-ache w/ RN.